Today in Sports History: Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown’s career rushing mark

Todays Sports Highlight in History: 1984 Walter Payton breaks Jim Browns career rushing mark of 12,312 yards and Browns career mark of 58 100-yard rushing games in a 20-7 victory over New Orleans.

Payton breaks the record on Chicagos second play from scrimmage in the second half.

Walter Payton timeline: The life, career of the Chicago Bears Hall of Famer better known as Sweetness On this date: 1904 Jack Chesbro registers his 41st victory of the season as New York defeats Boston 3-2.

1916 Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, beats Cumberland 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in history.

1933 Baseball World Series: NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4-3 at Griffith Stadium to clinch 4 games to 1 series victory.

1935 Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4-3 at Navin Field for 4 games to 2 series win; Tigers win first championship in 5 WS appearances.

1945 The Green Bay Packers score 41 points in the first quarter in a 57-21 win against the Detroit Lions.

1950 Baseball World Series: New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to sweep series, 4-0 for 13th WS title in team history; MVP: NY 2B Jerry Coleman.

1952 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 at Ebbets Field in Game 7 to tie own record 4th straight WS; MVP: NY 1B Johnny Mize.

1962 Judy Kimball wins the LPGA championship with a four-stroke victory over Shirley Spork.

1967 Tulsa wide receivers Ricky Eber and Harry Wood have the best day by a receiving duo in college football history.

Eber has 20 receptions for 322 yards and three touchdowns, while Wood grabs 13 passes for 318 yards and three scores in Tulsas 58-0 win over Idaho State.

1970 Willie Shoemaker wins his 6,033rd race to pass Johnny Longden as the winningest jockey.

His first race was won on April 20, 1949.

1985 Lynette Woodard, captain of the womens basketball team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, is chosen to be the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters.

1995 Coach Eddie Robinson gets his 400th victory as Grambling beats Mississippi Valley State 42-6.

2000 Zamir Amin of Menlo College sets an NCAA all-divisions record, passing for 731 yards in the Division III schools 37-32 loss to Cal Lutheran.

Amin, 39-of-66 with four TDs and three interceptions, breaks the mark of 716 set by David Klingler of Division I-A Houston against Arizona State on Dec.

2, 1990.

2001 San Diegos Rickey Henderson becomes the 25th player with 3,000 hits with a bloop double in a 14-5 loss to Colorado.

2001 Barry Bonds wraps up his record-breaking season with his 73rd homer and shatters the slugging percentage record that Babe Ruth had owned for 81 years.

He finishes with a slugging percentage of .863, easily surpassing the mark of .847 that Ruth set in 1920.

2006 Denis Hopovacs fifth field goal of the game, in an NCAA record-tying seventh overtime, gives North Texas a 25-22 victory over Florida International.

The other two seven-overtime games involved Arkansas against Mississippi in 2001 and Kentucky in 2003.

2011 Minnesota Lynx beat the Atlanta Dream 73-67 to complete a three-game sweep of the WNBA championship series.

2012 Drew Brees finishes 29 for 45 for 370 yards with four TD passes and an interception in New Orleans 31-24 win over San Diego.

Brees breaks the NFL record by throwing a touchdown pass in his 48th straight game.

His 40-yard pass to Devery Henderson eclipses the mark of 47 consecutive games set by Johnny Unitas from 1956-60.

2017 Jarvion Franklin runs in from the 12 to give Western Michigan a 71-68 victory over Buffalo in a record-tying seven overtimes with a record-breaking 139 total points.

2017 Backup Khalil Tate rushes for 327 yards, an FBS record for a quarterback, and accounts for five touchdowns to help Arizona hold off Colorado 45-42.

2017 Alex Ovechkin scores four goals to become the first player in 100 years with back-to-back hat tricks to open a season, and the Washington Capitals beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1..

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